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One thing that got to me while re-reading this, is how much our buddy Jed has developed as a treeman since then. He was still in the learning state back then and now he is on par with the best.

Yep. When I do arbo work I always go high enough to ensure the fibers run straight. Sounds like the fibers in one side of your hinge weren't.

�� I don't know what happend here. Was trying for a pair of big smilies: :lol::lol:

I must say, I have never noticed any difference in the force needed whether the back cut is low or high. There probably is some, but as a percentage of the total power needed to lift the tree, I think it is negligible.

I'll second that! Thanks Jerry, I didn't think of that. Of course one won't notice the twist in the corner where it runs into the tree instead of into the face.

Burnham, look at the pictures again. That stump is 1½ foot high. Anders cut it and he is about a foot shorter than me, so it is a real high stump for him. And I always set high stumps when I do hazard falling. Actually, the way I read it ( I love stump forensics!) it was not rootflare as much...

I had an ash with extreme sidelean to fell today in the park. We had to pull it into the lay. Remembering what Jerry B. said about the block facecut, I put one of those in. Then I chained the tree to keep it from barberchairing. That block face cut sure made the hinge hold up wonderfully...

I've never encountered set-back when making the face cut. But then I don't make my face cuts near as deep as you provincial tree fallers on the other side of the Atlantic ocean do. Burnham and Willie constantly ribs me about that BTW. I can't speak for Burnham, but I enjoy that you are so...

Since I'm mostly a hardwoods faller it is not so much a question of degrees, since backlean on those are mostly caused by branches. So that would be hard to say. I go by gut feeling. On the conifers, I'd agree that 10 degrees is absolute maximum, unless it is a short, wide based tree.

Burnham, what you are describing is pretty much the way we always set wedges. Since we normally can't reach all the way across the tree with our puny lil' bars, we bore in behind the hinge and cut our way around the tree. As we go around, we set the wedges. Slightly different procedure, same...

Is that a cryptomeria? I think you would call it sugi in Japanese. I can't tell from the picture. Did you cut that with a humboldt face or did you snipe the bottom out of a conventional face in order to make it as open as possible?

Interesting. I've never heard about the problem with higher temperatures. It is completely foreign to me. We don't have forest fires here. Well, we had one a couple of years back, lost about 8 acres of conifer plantation. Do you happen to have a link where I can read more about it?

It used to be, but sometimes mills will ask for logs in the summer now. Pain in the ass to log hardwoods with the leaves on them.

Me personally: I have a bunch of private forests ( owned by dukes, counts and other nobility( and you guys call us commies!!)) where I log on an ongoing contract. In the state forests I bid whenever a logging contract comes up. Last one we bid on runs for 3 years, so the next two winters we...

"Environmentalists can no longer escape the fact that their policies of inaction have ended up denuding many forests by increasing the risk and severity of forest fires." - Prof. Robert H. Nelson Around here the only way to start a forest fire would be to call in a napalm strike! What is the...

That is how a facecut was made back in the axe and whipsaw days, at least around here. I gut most of my hinges because I find that it makes it easier to vary the thickness from one side to the other, to compensate for lean, branch weigth etc. Instead of a hinge running all the way across the...

Flat ground is a given around here, but I'm totally with you on the no brush thing. Not having to fight your way through brush and second growth is good. Sometimes I miss the old days of cutting pulp, but I know for sure, that if I ever got a chance to do it again, it would cease being fun after...

That is really interesting, Greg. I've never thought of using that facecut to swing a branch, but it is quite logical that it'll give you some more swing before it breaks. I'll be experimenting with that next time I have a chance.

I disagree. For someone who only falls a moderate amount of trees, one that goes a little astray or gets hung up may not be a big deal. For a production faller, like myself, cutting to scale, a hung up tree is simply a waste of money, since time= money in that setting. So for me to be very...

Squisher, one thing that you or Burnham don't mention is that the height of backcut you can get away with varies from species to species. If you did your: " Humboldt with flush backcut" on one of our beechtrees or even worse, an ash, you'd split the log 2 out of 3 times. Particularly with...